Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from San Marino and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Accadde A to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Unrelated Segments,
Rakim,
New Order,
Y Pants,
Thee Headcoats,
The Offenders,
CMW,
The Red Krayola,
Essential Logic,
Marshall Jefferson,
David Axelrod,
Desert Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Warren Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Section 25,
Aswad,
Big Daddy Kane,
Hasil Adkins,
Fear,
B.T. Express,
Morten Harket,
Danielle Patucci,
Bobby Sherman,
Sarah Menescal,
Fat Boys,
The Fugs,
Godley & Creme,
Dave Gahan,
Urselle,
The Slackers,
Yaz,
E-Dancer,
Eric Dolphy,
The Techniques,
Lou Reed,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Graham Central Station,
Aloha Tigers,
D'Angelo,
Black Sheep,
Terry Callier,
Erasure,
Can,
Icehouse,
The Pretty Things,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cybotron,
Stetsasonic,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bush Tetras,
Quadrant,
Depeche Mode,
Bob Dylan,
The Motions,
A Certain Ratio,
Simply Red,
Judy Mowatt,
Make Up,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.